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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Meaning of "clangorous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLANGOROUS

clangorous  [ˈklæŋɡərəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLANGOROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Clangorous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CLANGOROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of clangorous in the English dictionary

The definition of clangorous in the dictionary is loud, resonant, and metallic.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLANGOROUS


adventurous
ədˈvɛntʃərəs
Anaxagoras
ˌænækˈsæɡərəs
Carreras
kəˈrɛərəs
dangerous
ˈdeɪndʒərəs
fulgorous
ˈfʌlɡərəs
generous
ˈdʒɛnərəs
glamorous
ˈɡlæmərəs
glamourous
ˈɡlæmərəs
Honduras
hɒnˈdjʊərəs
humorous
ˈhjuːmərəs
Icarus
ˈɪkərəs
languorous
ˈlæŋɡərəs
Lazarus
ˈlæzərəs
numerous
ˈnjuːmərəs
phosphorus
ˈfɒsfərəs
prosperous
ˈprɒspərəs
Pythagoras
paɪˈθæɡərəs
rigorous
ˈrɪɡərəs
uterus
ˈjuːtərəs
vigorous
ˈvɪɡərəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLANGOROUS

clandestine
clandestine entrant
clandestinely
clandestineness
clandestinity
clang
clang association
clanger
clangor
clangorously
clangour
clanjamfray
clank
clankingly
clanky
clannish
clannishly
clannishness
clanship

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLANGOROUS

amorous
carnivorous
disastrous
dolorous
herbivorous
hypochlorous
indecorous
insectivorous
malodorous
microporous
nonporous
phosphorous
porous
rancorous
sonorous
splendorous
stertorous
traitorous
tumorous
unglamorous
vaporous

Synonyms and antonyms of clangorous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «clangorous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLANGOROUS

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The translations of clangorous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «clangorous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

响亮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

clangorous
570 millions of speakers

English

clangorous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झंकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

clangorous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лязгающий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

estridente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কান-ফাটানো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

retentissant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Clangorous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

clangorous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

clangorous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

clangorous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Klangorous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

clangorous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

clangorous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खडबडीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gürültülü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

clangorous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

clangorous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

брязкітливий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

răsunător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηχηρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

clangorous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

clangorous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

clangorous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of clangorous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLANGOROUS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about clangorous

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QUOTES WITH «CLANGOROUS»

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Roy Blount, Jr.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLANGOROUS»

Discover the use of clangorous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clangorous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essays in Honor of Steven Paul Scher and on Cultural ...
Although Evans does not specify how these distinctively clangorous clusters of seconds an octave apart in each hand of the piano part are "characteristic" or to what they might refer, our investigation of the cyclic elements in Britten's " satisfying ...
Suzanne M. Lodato, Suzanne Aspden, Walter Bernhart, 2002
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Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New and Original Work of ...
The clangorous hammer It the tongue. Tbl* way, that way. beaten and swung."* LongfelUne ; The Golden Legend, it. ' cling ôr-ous ly, adv. [Eng. clangorous; □ '-, j lu a clangorous or clanging maimer. dang; -our, *. [Ft. dangeur; Lat clangor = a ...
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New York Magazine
clangorous. crowds. The. mood. was. festive. —. indeed,. congratulatory. The Indian Market. Fat's Off We eat out many nights and weigh in. tion, that prompted me to pick La Posada. "If you really want to survey antique Indian art," suggested an ...
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The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe
Bronze with peril, clangorous through the snow-numbed silence of the air, it had a quality of instancy and menace I had never known before. I leaped up and ran to the window to look for the telltale glow against the sky. But almost before I ...
Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp, 1989
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: An Original Work of Reference ...
In a clangorous or clanging manner. ' 4311!. 5. [Fr. claageur; Lat. clangor = a nose] A sharp ringing sound, a clung. “ As the lengthened clan an die. Slowly owe the iron nor 1" Scott .' hederick and Alice. tolling—Bur, v.5. [Cusoocm s.) Toclang.
Robert Hunter, 1903
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New & Original Work of ...
[Eng. clangorous ; -ly.] In a clangorous or clanging manner. Cling dnr, s. [Fr. clangeur; Lat clangor = a noise.] A sharp ringing sound, a clang. t cUlng'-our, v.i. [ Clangour, a] To clang. " At Paris aU steeple* are clangouring."— Carlylt : French  ...
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Medical News
Though the aortic sound, as heard over the remainder of the heart's area, was unusually loud, it did not have the clangorous quality of the pulmonary sound. The murmurish character of the first sound disappeared when the patient assumed ...
8
Keyboard Magazine Presents Vintage Synthesizers: Pioneering ...
The "ring modulator" feature found on today's synthesizers is generally not a true ring modulator, but typically produces the same kind of clangorous tones. See clangorous. rolloff slope: The acuity of a filter's cutoff frequency. Rolloff is generally ...
Mark Vail, 2000
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The Alternate Martians: The Sequel to The Coils of Time, a ...
clangorous. pumps. Down — until they almost fell onto a level platform, a deck of smooth, slippery metal. There was light here, of a sort. There were red-glowing tubes set in the low, arched ceiling. Turning around, letting the beam from his ...
A. Bertram Chandler, 2012
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New York Magazine
.The twenties as seen at the Modern were a rich, clangorous decade, more notable for experiment than for achievement..." Books / Carter Ratclif f X MARKS THE SPOT ". but a nineteenth-century metropolis. From the city it is a logical step to ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLANGOROUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term clangorous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Review: Wolf Alice, My Love is Cool
Ellie Rowsell's voice is kicked around between fluorescent guitars and clangorous percussion, and the outcome is both uplifting and anthemic. «Pretty Much Amazing, Jul 15»
2
Conrad Black: Stephen Harper must appoint a slew of high-calibre …
The government's election strategy appears to depend entirely on the red scare against Thomas Mulcair and the NDP, and clangorous ... «National Post, Jul 15»
3
The Hermione Sails Into New York Harbor, Cannons Blazing
More than two centuries later, the crowds were smaller but the scene was still clangorous. After passing Governors Island, the Hermione sent a ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
4
Borodin Quartet review – they make music flow as naturally as speech
... and that made the middle section of the third movement, a Bach-like fugue, sound as if it were being played on a huge, clangorous organ. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums Of 2015 (So Far)
The other is Edgard Varèse's crackling, clangorous Ameriques — far less well-known, but riveting and necessary. Perhaps even more ... «NPR, Jun 15»
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Emmanuel's effervescence rules Rockport
And in the finale he sometimes banged the keyboard so fiercely that the sound verged on sheer, clangorous noise. After intermission came ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
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After Surf Rock's Crash, Fungi Girls Are Still Riding High
Indeed, ask him straight out if there's any ambition lurking beneath the layers of clangorous distortion and melody found on Fungi Girls' series ... «New York Observer, Jun 15»
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Swept Away, Continuum Ensemble at Kings Place, London — review
... though, Paul Hindemith's There and Back was fascinating, even if its humour struggled to penetrate the clangorous, brassy instrumentation. «Financial Times, Jun 15»
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Blur, British Summer Time: Hyde Park, London — review
... Rowntree — opened with new song “Go Out”, whose jerky rhythms and clangorous feedback clomped into view like Frankenstein's monster. «Financial Times, Jun 15»
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In Berkeley, Steven Schick gives a half-great recital
He did the same for “The Anvil Chorus,” David Lang's Xenakis-esque 1991 etude for big, clangorous metal objects, and even for Karlheinz ... «SFGate, Jun 15»

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